She said “nothing has been decided” when asked whether Bullock has been offered the job at Stark State College in North Canton, Ohio.

United Group anticipates strong demand for the 264 beds at SCCC when they are ready for occupancy in August 2012—the first off-campus housing available to SCCC’s 6,000-plus students.

BBL Construction Services LLC is the builder; the architect is Re4orm Architecture in Schenectady. Adirondack Trust Co. is the lender.

The United Group has built or manages more than 3,000 student housing beds, including the newly opened 184-bed College Suites @ City Station in downtown Troy, and has more than 2,000 in the construction pipeline.

More than 70 percent of the beds at City Station have been leased, just two months after opening.

In Schenectady, the company worked with SCCC, city and county officials and the Schenectady Metroplex Development Authority on a 40-year lease for land across Washington Avenue from the college. The lump-sum payment is $250,000.

Students will pay $635 monthly for the units, which include two baths, a kitchen, living room and amenities such as a fitness room, game room, flight simulators, laundry and sound-proof music room.

The housing is expected to help the school draw more students to some of its signature programs, including culinary arts and hotel/restaurant management.

Schenectady County, which subsidizes part of SCCC’s roughly $30 million budget, will also benefit: students attending the college who live outside the county generate what’s known as a “charge-back” payment. In other words, their home county must send money to Schenectady County.

As it stands, Schenectady County pays more than $2 million annually in charge-backs to other counties, said Gary Hughes, a college trustee and county legislator. The new housing will help reduce that figure.